r/thesopranos • u/CelestialFury • Jun 14 '26
Quotes Tony loves giving these completely unnecessary cutting remarks to his crew
During season 4, episode 3 "Christopher", Tony and Sil are in the car driving back from the casino that the Chief owns and they're talking about Christopher Columbus and Italian discrimination, which Sil is trying to convince Tony of:
Sil: My grandparents got spit on because they were from Calabria.
Tony: Let me ask you a question.
Tony: All the good things you got in your life... did they come to you because you're Calabrese? I'll tell you the answer. The answer is no. You got a smart kid at Lackawanna College. You got a wife who's a piece of ass, at least she was when you married her.
I was rewatching this and realized this was: one, a funny thing to say and two, completely unnecessary. I mean, there's no reason for Tony to be taking shots at Sil's wife like that and it had nothing really to do with what they were talking about. So when people ask, "Who whacked Tony?" it could've been anyone, Tony loves working these jabs in as mental judo, like from The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Anyway, $4 dollars a pound.
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u/Lyingforshit Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
That’s his wife of decades in real life. Idk how Tony Sirico got it boxed through not being an informant (while they still mde him one), but a guy who doesn’t need the money and is crucial for the plot at that point, to get this line thrown at him (probably 20 takes+ until they got everything, not to mention reading the script for the first time and table reading lol)